Balfour Beatty plc
GIS Analyst
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About The Role
Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a GIS Analyst to join our team on the Highways A66 NTP Scheme, this role will be based at Penrith, Cumbria
Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live, work, and play.
We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently, and to a high standard.
What you'll be doing
- Provide GIS support to the A66 project, including the creation, maintenance, management, and assurance of GIS data and associated geospatial outputs.
- Create, manage, and publish GIS data, maps, dashboards, and spatial outputs for use by internal project teams, client representatives, and supply chain stakeholders.
- Deliver required GIS datasets, mapping products, and geospatial information to internal teams, external clients, and project stakeholders in accordance with project requirements.
- Support the population, distribution, upkeep, and quality assurance of GIS datasets, ensuring information is structured, accurate, and maintained to required project standards.
- Work closely with site operatives, environmental, design, CAD, BIM/Digital Engineering, CDE/ACC, and Project Information Management teams to convert, integrate, and coordinate data between formats and systems.
- Align GIS data, outputs, workflows, and reporting with wider Balfour Beatty GIS initiatives, standards, and best practice, contributing to consistency, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing across the business.
- Support the development and use of GIS-based technology, tools, and workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, and value across the project.
- Engage with GIS users and project stakeholders to improve ways of working, increase adoption of GIS solutions, respond to queries, and resolve GIS-related data issues.
- Support asset information, location-based data, and project reporting requirements through the use of reliable geospatial information.
- Maintain GIS outputs in line with project requirements, information management processes, applicable digital delivery standards, and ISO 19650 principles where relevant.
- Develop new ideas and approaches to improve GIS processes, data quality, reporting, collaboration, and value across the project.
- Maintain a commitment to continuous professional development, keeping awareness of emerging digital, geospatial, and data technologies relevant to infrastructure delivery.
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Who we're looking for
- Essential experience with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online required.
- ArcGIS Pro will be essential to ensure coordinate systems are consistent and accurate, and to provide the analysis tools required to create, manage, and assure individual GIS layers and attributes.
- Experience in data quality, data assurance, data management, and the successful production of project data.
- Experience creating GIS data, map outputs, dashboards, and geospatial deliverables for project teams, clients, and stakeholders.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and the management, manipulation, and checking of structured data.
- Knowledge of geodatabases, coordinate systems, and spatial data standards.
- Working knowledge of BIM processes, Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), and Common Data Environment (CDE) environments.
- Experience supporting GIS user administration, permissions management, and access control within GIS platforms.
- Experience with CAD, data conversion workflows, and integration of GIS information with design, environmental, BIM, and project delivery data.
- Awareness of wider GIS software packages and geospatial data formats, with ESRI ArcGIS remaining the primary project GIS platform.
- Excellent organisational skills with high attention to detail, accuracy, and information quality.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and under minimal supervision.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider project team.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to support users, respond to GIS-related queries, and promote efficient ways of working.
- Understanding of health, safety, and quality expectations and a commitment to supporting Zero Harm through accurate geospatial information and improved project visibility.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects; developing, building, and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes, and much more
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects, and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions, and add social value to the communities within which we work.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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